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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEGOTIATORS warned to LOOK BEFORE LEAPING!

Civil Society Alarmed at Climate Technology Quick Fixes in Copenhagen 

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ON BEHALF OF AD HOC COALITION: LET’S LOOK BEFORE WE LEAP!

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

Alert to climate negotiators:

LETS LOOK BEFORE WE LEAP!

 

GAPING OVERSIGHT:  NO ASSESSMENT IN TECHNOLOGY TEXT

 

An international group of more than 150 civil society groups from 36 countries will release a joint declaration calling upon governments in Copenhagen to revamp the draft text on technology transfer, to ensure that the precautionary principle is respected and that high-risk and unproven climate “techno-fixes†are not allowed to put the world at risk.

 

WHO:   Third World Network and ETC Group with other signatories of declaration.

 

WHEN: Thursday,  December 10 2009 at 9:00 AM

 

WHERE: BELLA CENTRE, Hall H, Asger Jorn Room, Copenhagen

 

This press conference will be webcast.

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Technology transfer is one of the four key topics being discussed under negotiations on Long-Term Cooperative Actions in Copenhagen (the others are mitigation, adaptation and financing). The inter-governmental negotiating text that is under discussion contemplates various measures for accelerating the diffusion of technologies. It will most likely create an Ê»Action Planʼ as well as a Ê»Technology Bodyʼ and various technical panels or innovation centres that will prove influential in the coming years in deciding which technologies get financial and political backing. We need to make sure the right technologies get the support they need and the wrong ones are discarded. That wonʼt happen without a comprehensive social and environmental assessment process. We, civil society groups and social movements from around the world, understand the urgent need for real and lasting solutions to climate change. We recognise the deadly consequences that we all face... Read more

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04/14/2009
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Boletín de prensa 13 de abril de 2009 www.etcgroup.org

¿De verdad Obama promueve la geoingeniería? Las declaraciones de su asesor científico son muy peligrosas

Ottawa, abril de 2009 El pasado 8 de abril Associated Press informó que la Casa Blanca podría considerar seriamente la geoingeniería —incluyendo la radical propuesta de disparar nanopartículas de sulfato a la atmósfera—, según John Holdren, Jefe Asesor Científico de Estados Unidos.(1) Dichas declaraciones están causando alarma. “Si esta es una prueba para explorar qué aceptación tiene Obama de la geoinigeniería, la Casa Blanca debería rechazarla inmediatamente”, dice Pat Mooney, director ejecutivo del Grupo ETC, organización de la sociedad civil con sede en Ottawa, que ha estado monitoreando las... Read more

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03/04/2009
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(y ganar una playera) Se acerca la fecha límite para participar en la competencia de geoingeniería  “Tapando el sol con un dedo”

Grupo ETC Boletín de prensa 4 de marzo de 2009 www.etcgroup.org

OTTAWA, 4 de marzo de 2009. A menos de un mes del ciere de la convocatoria del Grupo ETC a la competencia “Tapando el sol con un dedo”, personas de todo el mundo han enviado sus excéntricas ideas para rediseñar el planeta, de modo que el planeta (junto con nosotros) pueda sobre vivir el cambio climático. Las propuestas de algunos geoingenieros profesionales para manipular los suelos, el mar y la atmósfera en gran escala ya están llevándose a cabo: propuestas para desparecer las emisiones, evitar que la luz del sol llegue a la Tierra y, por supuesto, para lucrar con el mercado de carbono.

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11/12/2008
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À qui appartient la nature?

Pouvoir des grandes sociétés et ultime frontière de la marchandisation du vivant

Problèmes, obsessions et occasions : une préface

TIl y a trente ans, l’humanité avait un problème; la science avait une obsession; et l’industrie tenait une occasion. Notre problème était l’injustice. Les rangs des affamés ne cessaient de grossir et les rangs des agriculteurs, de s’affaiblir. De son côté, la science était obsédée par la biotechnologie – la possibilité de modifier génétiquement les cultures et le bétail (et l’être humain) pour les doter de traits qui allaient régler tous nos problèmes. L’industrie agroalimentaire tenait l’occasion de prélever l’énorme valeur ajoutée tout au long de la... Read more

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02/11/2009
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Grupo ETC  Boletín de prensa    10 de febrero de 2009 www.etcgroup.org

¡Llamando a todos los geoingenieros! 

“TAPANDO EL SOL CON UN DEDO”

para todos los que sueñan con ser geoingenieros  

  Arranca la primera competencia “Tapando el sol con un dedo” para las propuestas de geoingeniería más excéntricas para combatir el calentamiento global, al tiempo que la discusión sobre las propuestas técnicas para arreglar el planeta se pone más en boga: desde principios de año, un barco de India y Alemania zarpó hacia el océano y arrojó toneladas de sulfato de hierro por la borda en un dudoso intento por capturar dióxido de carbono en la profundidad del océano.[1] Una irresponsable empresa con capital de riesgo se prepara para verter urea en el Mar de Tasmania con el mismo... Read more

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01/24/2008
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ETC Group News Release 24 January 2008 www.etcgroup.org

Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn’t Work)  “It’s not how long – but how wise” cautions ETC Group

ETC Group today renewed its call for a moratorium on the release and commercialization of synthetic organisms, asserting that societal debate on the oversight of synthetic biology is urgently overdue. The renewed call came as J. Craig Venter’s research team announced that it has constructed a bacterial-length synthetic genome in the lab using mail-order synthetic DNA sequences. They’ve named the synthetic genome, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0, and it’s similar to its counterpart in nature, a genital bacterium with the smallest known genome of any free living organism. The announcement is not breaking news because the work had been previously reported, but the details were published today in Science.

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Who Owns Nature?

In this 100th issue of the ETC Communiqué we update Oligopoly, Inc. – our ongoing series tracking corporate concentration in the life industry. We also analyze the past three decades of agribusiness efforts to monopolize the 24% of living nature that has been commodified, and expose a new strategy to capture the remaining three-quarters that has, until now, remained beyond the market economy.

To download the full 48-page report, click on 'Download PDF,' above.

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10/08/2008
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Peak oil, skyrocketing fuel costs and climate crisis are driving corporate enthusiasm for a “biological engineering revolution” that some predict will dramatically transform industrial production of food, energy, materials, medicine and all of nature. Advocates of converging technologies promise a greener, cleaner post-petroleum future where the production of economically important compounds depends not on fossil fuels – but on biological manufacturing platforms fueled by plant sugars. It may sound sweet and clean, but the so-called “sugar economy” will also be the catalyst for a corporate
grab on all plant matter – and destruction of biodiversity on a massive scale.

Click on the 'Download PDF' icon above to download ETC Group's 12-page report, Commodifying Nature's Last Straw?  Extreme Genetic Engineering and the Post-Petroleum Sugar Economy. (PDF2 above is a higher resolution file.)

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